[Neuroimaging] [Nipype] changing the license of Nipype from BSD to Apache 2

[Satrajit Ghosh]

hi all,

i had a question last week about Nipype's license (an area i don't
understand well) and i was told that the BSD license can be restrictive in
a software patenting sense. here is one post i found that describes the
differences, and the legal differences have to do with software patents,
something that didn't exist when the original BSD/MIT style licenses were
crafted.

https://www.chef.io/blog/2009/08/11/why-we-chose-the-apache-license/

i would like to ask this community for guidance on the issue or pointers to
people who can provide guidance.

if there doesn't seem to be any major roadblocks and apache 2 offers some
advantages over BSD, i'm inclined to adopt it. the change seems quite
straightforward, but before we embrace it, i would like to get a better
handle.

cheers,

satra
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/neuroimaging/attachments/20151115/8e488d91/attachment.html>